Eighties Lady

To discover the intimate world of Inès-Olympe Mercadal is to be swallowed up by an absolute aesthetic. And this, right from the doorstep. We cannot say what surprises us the most, the blue monochrome that extends to all the rooms of this seventies apartment to the point of licking the walls, or the silhouette of our host, who would be recognisable among thousands. A high chignon bun which she has worn- almost unchanged – since she was fourteen years old, and a pair of glasses with a huge black frame, her essential coquettish touch, which fits the bone structure of her face. This 30-year-old descendant of the famous Mercadal shoe manufacturers has been capitalising on this ultimate elegance since 2016. The year in which her own brand, a complete and glamorous wardrobe, was created, an ode to the 1980s and to this woman, who embraced the codes of her teeming artistic world […]